Emmanuel Macron asked this Friday, June 20, arriving at the Bourget Aeronautical Show near Paris that the Government is organizing a debate in the Parliament on the War of Iran and Israel, and promised to bring together the leaders of the political parties to “exchange” in this conflict, but also in Gaza and Ukraine.
“I hope that the Government, and I spoke this morning with the Prime Minister, could organize on this issue (the conflict of Iran-Israel, a note of the editor) a debate, in accordance with article 50-1 of our Constitution,” said the President of the Republic during a press point.
According to this article of the Basic Law, the Government can, before the National Assembly or the Senate, “of its own initiative or request a parliamentary group (…) to make, on a given issue, a statement that gives rise to the debate” and can “decide”, be subject to a vote “without involving its responsibility.”
A meeting in “Saint-Denis format” after the NATO Summit
In addition, the Head of State has announced that “as soon as things begin to stabilize”, he would meet “in a Saint-Denis political format format political parties to exchange with them in Iran, Gaza but also Ukraine.”
He said this meeting will take place after the NATO summit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in The Hague. “First I will spend the course of the NATO summit next week,” he said.
The “Saint-Denis type format” corresponds to the leaders of the parties represented in Parliament. The president had brought together the leaders of these parties in August 2023 in Saint-Denis, near Paris, before reproducing the experience several times, especially in October of the same year after Hamas attacks in Israel. In February, he invited them to the situation in Ukraine and security problems.
Three European ministers meet their counterpart in Switzerland on Friday in Switzerland in an attempt to move towards a diplomatic result of the war that opposes this country to Israel, after the announcement of the president of the United States Donald Trump, which took two weeks to decide a possible US intervention.
Source: BFM TV
